Is anyone listening to Stephanie Miller?

[jjmalonejr]

I just heard talk about Bush on 9/11 referring to "the situation in New York" prior to going into the school to read "My Pet Goat."

BEFORE there was any indication of a situation in NY. Planes had been hijacked. What situation in NY?

Anyone know about this or have links to more info about this apparently damning statement?

[Duer 157099]

1. I'm not listening, but

I think what that might be about, is that the first plane hit while he was en route to the school, so he knew about if before he went into that classroom.

The odd thing is that, at least twice, he said that he had seen the first plane hit the tower, on TV -- when no footage was yet available of the first plane hitting.

[deutsey]

2. The only thing I can think of is Bush saying he saw the first plane

hit the WTC on TV, which was odd, because that was not on TV. The second hit was televised.

:shrug:

[Cassandra]

3. As I recall...

He was told of the first plane hitting the tower just as he was going into the school. You'd have to check a timeline for further details.

[SoCalDem]

4. FEMA arrived in NYC on 9-10-01

and there were "exercizes" going on at the pentagon...involving terrorists flying planes into buildings..and Poppy was having breakfast with a bin laden family member..and a week or so before 9-11 Jebbie issued orders involving martial law..

so many co-ink-ee-dinks

[Ioo]

5. Somewhere...

there is a great FLASH of the timeline, He does say he SAW the first plane hit... he must have had a TV no one else had.

[JHB]

6. No, the first plane had hit at that point

At the time of that statement (9AM or a minute or two after), he'd just been told about the first hit ("the situation in New York"), and was putting off saying more until his aides had more information (or a script) for him.

From http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/timeline_dayof911.html

(Between 8:46-8:55 a.m.): When Flight 11 hits the WTC at 8:46, Bush's motorcade is crossing the John Ringling Causeway on the way to Booker Elementary from the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Longboat Key. < Washington Times, 10/8/02 > Sarasota Magazine claims that Bush is on Highway 301, just north of Main Street when he is told that a plane had crashed in New York City. < Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01 > Around the same time, news photographer Eric Draper is riding in another car in the motorcade with Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, and overhears Fleischer say on a cell phone, “Oh, my God, I don't believe it. A plane just hit the World Trade Center.” Fleischer is told he will be needed on arrival to discuss reports of the crash. < Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/01 , Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02 > Fleischer is told this “just minutes” after the first news reports. < MSNBC, 10/27/02 > Congressman Dan Miller also says he is told about the crash just before meeting Bush at Booker at 8:55. < Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01 > Some reporters waiting for him to arrive also learn of the crash just minutes after it happens. < CBS, 9/11/02 (B) >
....
(8:55 a.m.): Bush's motorcade arrives at Booker Elementary School. <8:46, ABC News, 9/11/02 , 8:55, Washington Times, 10/7/02 , 8:55, Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01 , “just before 9:00,” Telegraph, 12/16/01 , “shortly before 9:00,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02 , “just before 9:00,” New York Times, 9/16/01 , 9:00, Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02 > The trip is said to take 20 minutes, which confirms he arrives around 8:55, if it is true he left around 8:35. < New York Times, 9/16/01 , St. Petersburg Times, 9/8/02 (B) , MSNBC, 10/27/02 >
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(Between 8:55-9:00 a.m.): Just after Bush arrives at Booker Elementary School and is briefly told of the WTC crash, he is whisked into a holding room and updated on the situation via telephone by National Security Advisor Rice. < Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/01 , > Rice later claims, “He said, what a terrible, it sounds like a terrible accident. Keep me informed.” < ABC News, 9/11/02 > School principal Gwen Tose-Rigell is then summoned to a room to talk with the President: “He said a commercial plane has hit the World Trade Center, and we're going to go ahead and go on, we're going on to do the reading thing anyway.” < Associated Press, 8/19/02 (D) > One local reporter notes that at this point, “He could and arguably should have left Emma E. Booker Elementary School immediately, gotten onto Air Force One and left Sarasota without a moment's delay.” < Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/12/01 (B) >